kansas city, 48. but denver, should top out around 70 degrees. you can obviously see where the warm air is located. we do have some warm air moving into the pacific northwest. also some snow showers across montana. but today the big story will be the 3 to 6 inches of snow possible all through the great lakes from cleveland, ohio, e e erie, pennsylvania, up into buffalo, new york. anywhere off lake ontario we will see some of that lake-effect snow and the northern peninsula of michigan, as well. we are going to see the lake-effect snow linger through the day today, even into tomorrow. temperatures in the northeast will be in the 40s. a little cool. down across the southeast we'll top out in the 50s and 60s. but the warm spot, again, back into colorado with highs today topping out in the lower 70s. alex? >> okay. dylan, thank you so much for that. >>> a new wrinkle this week in the fiscal cliff negotiations. just 38 days to go and the big question now, how much might republicans try to use the president's health care plan as a negotiating chip? nbc